y'kno, it's gonna get to a point where i just detest ANY cafeteria food at Davis... like right now my breakfast was almost entirely composed of fruit... haven't had any juicy stuff for a long time. most of my 5-a-day has been from vegetables here. steamed ones.

whoopdedoo, laura's getting a guitar around winter break. probably an acoustic one, cause she feels that she isn't so HARDCORE right now, like she says. hey, whoever said i'm hardcore? just need to extend your listening to something i dunno, beyond punk rock?

i'm still surprised that justin wants to know how to play drums... god bless that good man :)

this is the 1st time i've gone nearly total commando style in davis... jon's a veteran though :)

me: btw, you must be pretty happy to type in yellow and pink right now :-)
laura: haha
laura: ya
me: see, if i did that, people would think i'm gay :-)
me: heh heh
laura: haha
laura: no not true
laura: well if you're so not gay
laura: then it's just funny
me: you mean i am? :-)
laura: huh?
laura: well my friend has a pink background
laura: and it's just funny
me: heh heh
me: so maybe i should change my bg to a light purple color and my font color to a bright pink color? :-)
laura: no
laura: that's a bit too much
me: 'k, so *heh heh* how much is "just-right" gay? :-)
laura: mm dont be gay
laura: unless you that secure about it

go watch the music video of Linkin Park's "Cure For the Itch"(techno version... y'kno, the title which isn't spelled correctly) at Launch.com... pure entertainment... nothing but breakdancing during the entire video... and very good turntabling... 2 thumbs up for Hahn's DJing abilities.

my fingers ache... ditto w/my eyes... the road to writing up chorded versions of worship songs is hard and tiring... but the end is worth it

jon: are you going to get jeremy anything for his birthday?
me: i dunno, i don't have a lotta money, so i'll just end up giving something like "this is what i think of when think of you" type of gift
jon: you mean food?
me: yes.... i mean NO!!!! well, maybe i could give him a dog chew bone
jon: help him lose weight

but yeah, seriously, what AM i gonna get him?

i think what'll end up happening for me this year, is that this'll be the 1st year i end up buying something for myself this birthday... i was too lazy to reply back to my brother, and HINT about what i wanted for my bday... oh well, there's always christmas. but i'm starting to not really care... God's blessed me with so much that at this point i'm not sure an additional tangible thing would be necessary, aside from maybe a 12 Stones CD.

to bed i go... class @7:30. don't wanna be crapped out for the rest of the day... gotta finish revising my essay and print it out. and finish writing up the rest of the songs we wanna do.

there's more to pray about than we think... >D

how can jon think davis is chilly now? i seriously love the current weather state... sunny, with occasional gusts of wind... so not too hot, not too cold. if this was heaven's climate, i'd be so happy. just get an extremely great feeling outside, pure adorance of God.

you don't know how much of a relief it is to be done with the 1st draft of your midterm paper... it's like the clouds just broke apart and the sun just burst forth. will edit later, and tomorrow.

David Crowder Band- Our Love Is Loud

nothing gets me in the mood than a good worship band, all playing together in harmony in each instrument's distinct way. like the song i just stated.

heading off to lunch now.

i'm supposed to be typing up my SAS midterm paper right now so i don't have to overwork myself the next 2 days, so lemme make what i wanna say for now short...

after buying the DOD AC adapter, and going back to Davis, it turns out that i bought an AC adapter which won't work... at least they still sell an AC adapter for discontinued fX pedals like the one i have... so i'm gonna have to return it and get the correct one this time... no more mistakes, reach. don't worry though... i still have some batteries, so i'll just have to do this worship session with batteries... well, actually i could do the actual thing with the adapter... just that the practices will have to be with batteries.

jerm needs help losing weight... he really does... pray for him...

that's it... keep encouraging me, bob(and whoever from our church is reading this): i can get pretty lazy at times.

oh yeah, i know we don't usually talk about the taiwanese congregation side of our CTCC church, but if you read this, please pray for Pastor Tong... a large part of the taiwanese congregation doesn't like him. it seems like he's just taking advantage of his long contract. according to my mom, he spends at least 1 week out of 1 month in Indonesia, and when he's here, his sermons are hardly scripture-based. no lesson to them either. and sometimes it also seems like his pride gets in the way... like one time he told the taiwanese choir right in front of the entire congregation that their music wasn't good and that when he was in the indonesian choir, everyone lined up to believe in jesus. what else... oh yeah, how bout the fact that he barely knows anybody from the congregation by name? also, we can't get rid of him, cause we signed a contract that puts him here for 4 yrs i think? so i think the only solution is to pray that the elders will have the courage to talk to Pastor Tong and tell him that some of his actions aren't right and that he needs to change them. now, i'll be honest... i haven't been going to the Taiwanese service, i'm going strictly by what i heard from my mom... haven't asked around the others to see if what my mom's saying is true. but if it is, once again i ask ya to pray for the elders. geez, all this plus what's going on with the youth group makes me wonder how much our church is crumbling apart.

w00t! w00t! w00t! i'm gonna love worshiping God! let's get it on!